Another scared and confused little boy creating hysteria so he can be the center of attention - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...n-nazi/544119/
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Another scared and confused little boy creating hysteria so he can be the center of attention - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...n-nazi/544119/
Story about the Nigerian bobsled team:
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/sto...istory-nigeria
Jumping on the New Yorker train;
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...really-big-one
Pacific Northwest gonna have a real bad day someday.
Man I been preaching about that article to anybody who will listen to me, I think I even posted it earlier in this thread. THat shit is gonna be bad, and it's overdue.Quote:
Originally Posted by LostCosmonaut
You think you have any shot of getting anyone in Portland to listen to you?Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
They freaked out over "the Big One" long before it was cool. They've moved on. Like Facebook and the Decemberists.
When I lived in Portland we had the Red Cross come into our office one day to talk about emergency preparedness, and the lady was like “I usually tell people to bring an emergency bag to keep at the office, but in this building you better just hope the earthquake happens on a weekend.”
Someone had better tell the good people at Sassy's and the Acrop that the end is near.
For real this time though.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...white-darkness
Another amazing read from the folks at the New Yorker.
https://story.californiasunday.com/r...gdom-from-dust
Interesting story about water, almonds, and the family behind the pom wonderful pomegranate juice. As a descendant of farm workers in the valley who spent time there every year growing up, I think the author does a good job capturing the feeling of place in the Central valley
Interesting read,..eta..I was born in Lodi and spent some summers driving a D7 with a scraper leveling land for farmers in the area for $8 an hour in the early 80’s it’s kind of fucked these guys are only making a few dollars more after 30+ yearsQuote:
Originally Posted by abraham
[QUOTE=BmillsSkier;5241809]Someone had better tell the good people at Sassy's and the Acrop that the end is near.
For real this time though.[/QUOTE
Not to worry , both are single story buildings and have a parking lot they can set up shop in case in case of the big one. Saving my singles for "BIG ONE" special at the world famous acrop. Lap dance , steak and bottled waters to go for $25.
Why Aren’t You Laughing?
Reckoning with addiction.
By David Sedaris
Worst Roommate Ever
“You’ve got your whole life in front of you. You’re pretty, you’ve got this house — well, you don’t have this house anymore. This house is my house.”
By WILLIAM BRENNAN
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...mate-ever.html
HIGH TECH COWBOYS OF THE DEEP SEAS: THE RACE TO SAVE THE COUGAR ACE
https://www.wired.com/2008/02/ff-seacowboys/
This one is an all timer. They are supposedly making a movie out of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by zartagen
Yeah. That was a good read. Those guys are badasses.
The Worst U.S. Maritime Disaster in Decades
Heuristics traps at sea: Both Davidson and Randolph apparently believed they would be dealing with a Category 1 hurricane, and at some distance from the eye. Neither they nor the National Hurricane Center suspected that the storm would increase to a Category 3 and accelerate that very night.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018...ter-in-decades
4-part series on "The War in the Desert". Bunkerville, Malheur occupation, grazing and water rights, Sagebrush Rebellion, etc...part 4 drops tomorrow 5/18/18.
https://longreads.com/2018/05/15/bun...in-the-desert/
Looking for Life on a Flat Earth
What a burgeoning movement says about science, solace, and how a theory becomes truth.
Too many good quotes but these two I really like.
Quote:
At five-thirty, the conference broke for the day and the crowd spilled out into the hotel atrium for happy hour. I needed a drink, and, to my surprise, Evangelical flat-Earthers sometimes do, too; many had gravitated, or perhaps simply fallen, toward the bar
Oh and DBS.... please don't click the link.Quote:
Believing in a flat Earth is hard work; there is so much to relearn. The price of open-mindedness is isolation. “It took me about four months before I could talk to someone outside the apartment about this,” Marble said during his presentation. “You’ve gotta be ready to be called crazy.” Several people described the relief of “coming out” as a flat-Earther. “You can tell people you’re gay, you can tell people you’re Christian, but you don’t get ridiculed like a flat-Earther
The Stanford Prison Experiment was a sham.
https://medium.com/s/trustissues/the...e-d869212b1f62
After reviewing some of Le Texier’s evidence, textbook author Greg Feist told me he is considering taking a firmer stand in the forthcoming edition of Psychology: Perspectives and Connections.
“I hope there does come a point, now that we know what we do, where Zimbardo’s narrative dies,” Feist said. “Unfortunately it’s not going to happen soon, but hopefully it will happen. Because I just think it’s a…”
Feist paused, searching for the appropriate word, then settled on a simple one.
“It is a lie.”
Excellent stuff. OPB also did a seven-part podcast on this. In depth analysis that definitely added nuance to my understanding - https://www.opb.org/news/article/bun...ation-podcast/Quote:
Originally Posted by NlytendOne
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...-who-came-home
The Spy Who Came Home - Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop.
Thanks for that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by fool
old but good:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...-ronnies-court
John le Carre on growing up with his conman father.
This wasn't over the top great or anything but I read it today and it was pretty interesting: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/m...ld-reveal.html
This is the one thread on tgr that I have bookmarked and keep coming back to. So much good writing. Thanks people.
Yeah, this thread and the Cool Science thread. I always learn something new when either thread gets bumped.
From: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...eaks-democracy The most famous entrepreneur of his generation is facing a public reckoning with the power of Big Tech.Quote:
Sean Parker later described the company’s expertise as “exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology.” The goal: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?” Facebook engineers discovered that people find it nearly impossible not to log in after receiving an e-mail saying that someone has uploaded a picture of them. Facebook also discovered its power to affect people’s political behavior. Researchers found that, during the 2010 midterm elections, Facebook was able to prod users to vote simply by feeding them pictures of friends who had already voted, and by giving them the option to click on an “I Voted” button. The technique boosted turnout by three hundred and forty thousand people—more than four times the number of votes separating Trump and Clinton in key states in the 2016 race. It became a running joke among employees that Facebook could tilt an election just by choosing where to deploy its “I Voted” button.
Insightful article if you have interest in big tech, democracy, monopolies, etc.
I Found the Best Burger Place in America. And Then I Killed It.
https://www.thrillist.com/eat/portland/stanichs-closed-will-it-reopen-burger-quest
That was a great one. #4 was a no name place in Seattle that had similar issues, though still open.Quote:
Originally Posted by dunfree
Damn! Didn't know that Stanich's had closed. Lived a few blocks away for a couple of years. The whole neighborhood was mellow and k00l back then.
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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...tion-debt-work
How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation
A lot more in there than the title suggests.
Love it or hate it, there were definitely a few things in there I identified with (not the social media parts, as I largely don't do that except here on TGR).
It's a long read. But that's what this thread is for. Maybe browse the bold subtitles first.
I completely agree with some of it, I completely disagree with some of it, and some of it is just whining for sure, but I do certainly relate to enough parts of it to make the read worthwhile.
Queue controversial quote to make you old-timers mad enough and read the article.
Quote:
To describe millennial burnout accurately is to acknowledge the multiplicity of our lived reality — that we’re not just high school graduates, or parents, or knowledge workers, but all of the above — while recognizing our status quo. We’re deeply in debt, working more hours and more jobs for less pay and less security, struggling to achieve the same standards of living as our parents, operating in psychological and physical precariousness, all while being told that if we just work harder, meritocracy will prevail, and we’ll begin thriving. The carrot dangling in front of us is the dream that the to-do list will end, or at least become far more manageable.
But individual action isn’t enough. Personal choices alone won’t keep the planet from dying, or get Facebook to quit violating our privacy. To do that, you need paradigm-shifting change. Which helps explain why so many millennials increasingly identify with democratic socialism and are embracing unions: We are beginning to understand what ails us, and it’s not something an oxygen facial or a treadmill desk can fix.
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The problem with holistic, all-consuming burnout is that there’s no solution to it. You can’t optimize it to make it end faster. You can’t see it coming like a cold and start taking the burnout-prevention version of Airborne. The best way to treat it is to first acknowledge it for what it is — not a passing ailment, but a chronic disease — and to understand its roots and its parameters.
When the ice melts: the catastrophe of vanishing glaciers
https://www.theguardian.com/news/201...shing-glaciers
WoW. So sobering.Quote:
Originally Posted by PNWbrit
The frenetic pace of contemporary life is having a devastating impact on this planet. Humans have transformed more than half the ice-free land on Earth. We have changed the composition of the atmosphere and the chemistry of the oceans from which we came. We now use more than half the planet’s readily accessible freshwater runoff, and the majority of the world’s major rivers have been either dammed or diverted.
As a species, we now hang over the abyss of a geoengineered future we have created for ourselves. At our insistence, our voracious appetite is consuming nature itself. We have refused to heed the warnings Earth has been sending, and there is no rescue team on its way.
Spain’s Open Wounds
Decades after Franco’s regime, the country’s citizens continue to unearth the crimes of the past.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...n_villain.html
Linda Taylor - The original "welfare queen" - is an amazing tale beyond the superficial entitlement program grift.
Thanks to everyone posting here. Bundy article was really interesting, a much deeper insight to the family and issues than I've seen before.
I feel better when I procrastinate with engaging journalism instead of forum nonsense and social media.
Harry, paging Harry to the white courtesy phone.......Holy shit, this is riveting:
Fight the Ship, the story of the USS Fitzgerald. Great read by the folks at ProPublica......
https://features.propublica.org/navy...crash-crystal/